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- WHERE'S THOMAS FROM?
- A Continuing Saga
From Pat Nurre:
I found the following from Colonial Families of U.S. Vol IV. I had stated that the wife of Thomas I was Mary GODDEN, whose father William GODDEN was a servant to Comfort STARR.
[NOTE 2014: As of March, 2014, NOTHING HAS BEEN FOUND to confirm the existence of a familial connection between Mary, wife of (Sgt) Thomas Skinner of Malden, MA, and William Godden. (SKU Editor)]
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Here is who Comfort STARR was: Dr. Comfort Starr came from Ashford, County of Kent, Eng. where he was Senior Warden of St. Mary's Church in 1631; in the year 1634-35 he sailed for New Eng., in the ship Hercules from Sandwich with three children, three servants and wife Elizabeth and settled in Cambridge, MA."
If Mary's father came with Dr. Comfort Starr would this have had any effect on the Skinner family emigrating? Perhaps someone else has an idea. (E84.1019)
Re: The Will of John Skinner, Debden
We are still plodding along with the 'translation' of the will. We have so far ascertained that John had at least two sons, Thomas and Johnny, or something very close to Johnny. Also his wife's name was Elanor. He had a goodly amount of land near Debden in Lyttlebury, which was willed out to the sons. There's the next step. Try to get land records from the time to find out if the parcel given to Thomas was sold at any time in the late 40's or early 50's. Remember that Thomas emigrated to the colonies between 1649 and 1651.
Next point is that in 1631 young Thomas would have been about 15 years old. Would this be old enough to inherit land in England at the time?
Re: Sergeant Thomas Skinner, an Officer of Cromwell, John B. Skinner's question from the last issue.
Howard E. Skinner of Berkeley, CA wrote: In your material on Sergeant Thomas Skinner - you assume "must have been a sergeant in Cromwell's army as the dates are in order" and "as he came to this country circa 1650. . . " I disagree with your logic. Cromwell's last two battles were Dunbar, Scotland September 30, 1650 and Worcester September 3, 1651, and the defeated army were mostly Scots.
Therefore , if I were to make a conclusion from your data above - I would say he was a sergeant in the royalist army - and was one of the 200 prisoners of war sent to the Boston Colony by Cromwell - and would be looking for his birthplace in Scotland.
Another interesting bit of information to be included with the search for Thomas!
The search goes on...
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